My book has a cover! Publication expected Oct 2024 (UK) and Jan 2025 (US). For more info (including early reviews!) see: politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

Stagflation makes intuitive sense to me with massive wealth inequality. An increasingly small group of people just pay more and more for the same set of goods and services, because they can.

Thank you to the Norwegian Coast Guard for hosting the Arctic Coast Guard Forum meeting in Trondheim on 15-18 April 2024! The successful meeting enabled the participants to discuss topical issues concerning the development of maritime safety in the #Arctic region.

Full article: Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

not the onion

bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/3…

New article in PolarJournal on the drivers of #Greenland home-rule & self-government by Uffe Jakobsen & Henrik Larsen.

Interesting to learn transfer of policy areas has slowed down. Since 2009, 🇬🇱 has only taken over 2 new areas: mining and offshore.

tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Minister 해양수산부 delivers keynote speech to approx. 150 young people in Seoul city center. Minister Kang, oceanographer by training and has conducted multiple dives in Antarctica, strongly encouraged the audience to consider the Arctic and Antarctic for their future careers.

A bombastic interview with Russian Vice Admiral Yuldashev: 'We are making it clear in every possible way to our ill-wishers who are plotting to encroach on Russian territories in the #Arctic that we are ready to defend our lands, our Motherland.'
dzen.ru/a/Zea3Ko2fuXnh…

NEW in PG - The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests, by Max Ritts, Trishant and Citizen Sense Jennifer Gabrys sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Deeply grateful to my Korean colleagues for their incredible partnership in pursuit of these tough-to-get Antarctic ice cores! ❄️🙏
science.org/content/articl…

US Dept of Defense Director of #Arctic and oceans policy says US & allies face global competitors that 'seek to rewrite rules that underpin global security as the Arctic quickly becomes a leading region of great power competition.'
defense.gov/News/News-Stor…

Forget just ghost cities: New study finds vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest

Article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/roads-of-destr…

Article in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

sandworm, but then make it cloudy

Worrying to be riding Amtrak through Washington with the acrid smell of smoke filling the air and a small forest fire blazing out the window this weekend, before we were even halfway through April (unless it was prescribed...?)

A Russian ice-resistant survey platform has drifted with pack ice into Norwegian territorial waters to the north of the Svalbard archipelago.

#Norway #Svalbard

gcaptain.com/russian-survey…